Review ipfs-pack draft proposal

[flyingzumwalt]

Review Issue: Proposing some tooling for datasets (ipfs-pack and stuff)

Implementing a basic version of pack should be relatively simple and would be quite useful because it allows a dataset to be a freestanding content-addressed thing regardless of how you're storing it. Among other things, this allows us to simplify the filestore requirements.

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[kevina]

What exactly are the "filestore requirements." that seams very odd that now we are working on this, considering I already have a very functional implementation?

[flyingzumwalt]

@kevina I recommend posing this question on Issue #85 . My understanding is that @whyrusleeping and @jbenet think the existing implementation is too complicated. They plan to review the filestore implementation and are considering the "Concise Filestore spec" linked to from that issue.

[kevina]

@flyingzumwalt okay. the question wasn't really directed at you.

[jbenet]

@kevina context: ipfs/team-mgmt#309 (comment)

[jbenet]

I need to update the ipfs-pack spec for the work we're doing this sprint.

[kevina]

There is a good chance I can help with ipfs-pack but I want to first work on any filestore specific issues so I am waiting for @jbenet notes on my code and/or meeting before I commit any time to this sprint.

[flyingzumwalt]

Results of this review: ipfs/ipfs-pack repo with new ipfs-pack spec